Russian top brass 'at each other's throats over invasion deaths & terrified of giving clueless Putin bad news', say docs | The Sun
RUSSIA'S top brass are at each other's throats over the true scale of losses in the Ukraine invasion – and are terrified of giving Vladimir Putin the bad news, leaked US spy documents reportedly show.
The pathetic infighting has come to light following a cache of additional classified intelligence documents that were leaked online this week.
The tension surrounds disputed death toll figures since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which was revealed by the New York Times in a 53-page secret document.
The report showed the domestic intelligence agency, the FSB, accused the military of obscuring the scale of casualties that Putin has suffered.
It also revealed the cowardice Russian military officials were petrified to brief mad Vlad with accurate figures that illustrated a failed campaign.
In one document, American intelligence officials claimed the FSB "accused" the country’s Defense Ministry "of obfuscating Russian casualties in Ukraine".
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It said FSB officials contended the ministry’s toll, which failed to include the dead and wounded among the National Guard, the Wagner mercenaries and the fighters fielded by Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov.
The FSB "calculated the actual number of Russians wounded and killed in action was closer to 110,000" the document claimed.
The last time the ministry publicly disclosed a death toll was in September, 2022.
At the time, defence minister Sergei Shoigu said 5,937 Russian troops had been killed since their invasion of Ukraine.
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The paranoia among Putin's war cabinet was first made apparent when his ex-bodyguard, Gleb Karakulov, shed light on the delusional Russian leader.
Karakulov was a captain in the Federal Guard Service but has since fled the country after dishing dirt on Putin's regime.
He branded the Russian President a "war criminal" and claimed he had brainwashed his minions to "worship him in every way".
Karakulov also claimed Putin was battling his own inner demons in complete isolation.
He said: "He is pathologically afraid for his life.
"He surrounds himself with an impenetrable barrier of quarantines and an information vacuum.
"He only receives information from his closest circle, which means that he lives in an information vacuum."
The secret papers also revealed another obvious flaw in the regime – the finger pointing among Russian agencies responsible for failures in the war.
It provided details about a public dispute between Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin and Shoigu.
The report claimed bloodthirsty Prigozhin lambasted military officials for withholding urgently needed ammunition from his fighters.
The dispute got so heated between the two that Putin got involved and mediated a "peace meeting" in February, it was reported.
The revelation of the captious behaviour in Putin's inner circle comes as the leaked documents revealed a British spy plane was nearly shot down by the Russians.
The Russian jet was flying above the Black Sea when its pilot believed he had permission to fire on a RAF RC-135 Rivet Joint, according to the report.
Fortunately the missile malfunctioned and a potentially catastrophic incident was averted.
The findings were put to the Ministry of Defence, which has strenuously denied the account of the incident revealed in the documents.
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An MoD spokesman said: "A significant proportion of the content of these reports is untrue, manipulated, or both.
"We strongly caution against anybody taking the veracity of these claims at face value and would also advise them to take time to question the source and purpose of such leaks."
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